Derek Washington

Derek Washington stepped into the Marvel Universe in 1996, debuting in Venom: Along Came a Spider #1 under the creative hands of Larry Hama, Joe St. Pierre, and Tom Grindberg — right in the thick of the symbiote-saturated mid-'90s. His story unfolds across the pages of Venom: Along Came a Spider and Venom: The Hunted, putting him in remarkably intense company: Eddie Brock, Ben Reilly, the monstrous Hybrid, and Detective Alton Clark all share his world. With only a handful of appearances to his name, Derek is a deep-cut figure for the dedicated Venom completist — the kind of character who quietly anchors the street-level texture of a memorable era in Marvel's darker corners.